Название: The Origins of War: From the Stone Age to Alexander the Great
Автор: Arther Ferrill
Издательство: Westview Press
Год: 1997
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 241
Размер: 29,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

When did war begin? Standard military accounts tend to start with the Graeco-Persian wars, laying undue emphasis on the preeminence of Greek heavy infantry. But, as this strikingly original and entertaining book shows, the origins of war can be traced back not to the Iron Age, or even to the Bronze Age, but to the emergence of settled life itself nearly 10,000 years ago.